[asterisk-biz] Anyone still using skype ?

[Steve Totaro]

I have migrated all of my workstations to Fedora Core 7.  Only two of my 
servers run Windows 2003.  One is for QuickBooks and the other runs 
Exchange 2003.

I cannot find a single thing that I cannot do with this setup that I 
couldn't before (except printing is a little difficult sometimes but 
that might just be a learning curve).

Using VNC or remote desktop, QB is in easy reach (as is any other 
Windows app) and I also have IE installed on my FC7 box just in case I 
need it for compatibility.  Like yesterday, I could not click the submit 
or order button in Firefox.  I opened IE in Linux, copied over the URL 
and all was joyful.

That is just me, the majority of the world will resist change and stay 
with what they know and see in commercials everyday.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

C F wrote:
> Yes, I am and so are around 80% of all the other PCs in the world. I
> have to admit I have as many Linux machines that I manage as Windows
> machines, so for me the statistics doesn't hold. While I admire what
> linux can do, it is in no way a replacement for windows in an office
> envirnment, just like Mac isn't, as much as I would like to argue in
> favor of linux. All of my linux machines are special or single purpose
> machines running Firewalls/Routers, Asterisk or apache.
> 
> Most of what I do has to do with Phone systems. Avaya Definity makes a
> nice GUI for managing their systems, guess what, it only works in
> Windows. Pansonic makes a nice GUI and again it only works in Windows.
> Samsong makes DVRs that has a remote viewing program, guess what it
> only works on Windows, and most of the other companies that
> manufacture DVRs write their tools only form Windows.
> 
> Granted most of business productivity tools (Office etc.) are now
> cross platform thanks to OpenOffice.org. But any other tool is not,
> has Intuit released a version of QuickBooks for Linux? I don't think
> so. Did the Sage guys do that? Nope. So to answer your question I have
> another question: Who exactly is not using Windows?
> 
> On 9/11/07, Drew Gibson <drew at oanda.com> wrote:
>>  Isn't the REAL question "Is anyone STILL using Windows?"
>>
>>  regards,
>>
>>  Drew
>>
>>
>>  Dean Collins wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>  Yep – I got two 'chats' yesterday from people who have this. The first one
>> I didn't realize until I clicked the link but my virus control caught the
>> .scr file from loading.
>>
>>  The second one had the exact same wording so is easy to spot.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Regards,
>>
>>  Dean Collins
>>  Cognation Pty Ltd
>>  dean at cognation.net
>>  +1-212-203-4357 Ph
>>  +61-2-9016-5642 ( Sydney in-dial).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
>> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
>> Dovid Bender
>>  Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2007 7:30 AM
>>  To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
>>  Subject: [asterisk-biz] Anyone still using skype ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2007/09/on_the_worm_that_affects_skype.html
>>
>>  --
>> Drew Gibson
>>
>> Systems Administrator
>> OANDA Corporation
>> www.oanda.com
>>
>>
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